HISTORY LESSONS
  • The Books
  • The Blog
  • The channel
  • Extra Credit
  • Visit Victory Independent Planning

Extra Credit
​

LESSON SEVEN: To Be, or Knot to Be

5/16/2018

0 Comments

 

Do apes have culture?

Playing video games, listening to Beyonce, taking selfies - do primates have rich inner lives?

MONKEY AROUND: Do apes have culture? From the Sydney Morning Herald comes the answer, sort of, as it turns out to be complicated. Certain apes may be a part of a conservative tribe where innovation is scant and traditional ways of doing things are rarely supplanted. This is clearly cultural mores at work, unless it is functional fixedness instead. It is difficult to understand the motive of creatures who can’t explain themselves. Regardless, I like this definition of fixedness: “an innate inability to do things differently.” Perhaps it is also a primate inability to do things differently? 

GET GRUMPY: To properly channel your inner curmudgeon, get a few pointers from Saturday Night Live comedian Dana Carvey’s Grumpy Old Man: http://www.hulu.com/ watch/271497. Progress? Flibbity floo! 

THINK LIKE A STONE: Alexander (2004). Oliver Stone’s one hundred and fifty-five-million-dollar epic about the con- queror of ninety percent of the world, was skipped at the theatre by ninety percent of movie goers. The few who did see it didn’t think it was so great, calling the movie ambitious and risky but unfinished, unwieldy and flawed. Historians hated it because it was inaccurate and directed by Oliver Stone, which is often redundant. Luckily for you none of the endless stream of names, places or dates narrated by Anthony Hopkins as Ptolemy will be on the final exam. Stone created the film as a historical opus to explain Alexander’s kinder, gentler side but you don’t have to use it that way. Instead, utilize it purely for its visual entertainment value and to ask yourself if any ruler with flowing locks as bad as Colin Farrell’s could truly conquer the world? 
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Lessons

    All
    History 101
    History 201
    History 301
    History 401

Patrick Huey is the author of two books:  "History Lessons for the Modern Investor" and "the Seven Pillars of (Financial) Wisdom"; this is considered an outside business activity for Patrick Huey and is separate and apart from his activities as an investment advisor representative with Dynamic Wealth Advisors.  The material contained in these books are the current opinions of the author, Patrick Huey but not necessarily those of Dynamic Wealth Advisors.   The opinions expressed in these books are for general informational purposes only and are not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations for any individual or on any specific security. They are intended to provide education about the financial industry. To determine which investments may be appropriate for you, consult your financial advisor prior to investing. Any past performance discussed in these books is no guarantee of future results.  As always please remember investing involves risk and possible loss of principal capital. 
  • The Books
  • The Blog
  • The channel
  • Extra Credit
  • Visit Victory Independent Planning